Manitou Springs, CO Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Banned area
- Downtown sidewalks + paved/concrete park areas
- Covered vehicles
- Bikes, scooters, skateboards, similar wheeled vehicles
- Exception
- Areas designated as a bike path
- Downtown boundary
- Defined by cross-reference to §9.46.010(B)
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 1518, July 10, 2018
- Max penalty
- $2,650 fine and/or 90 days jail (§1.01.100)
Summary
Manitou Springs bars skateboards, along with bikes and scooters, from downtown sidewalks and any paved or concrete area of a city park that is not marked as a bike path, under a rule the city council adopted in 2018 to keep foot traffic moving in the commercial core.
A.No person shall ride a bike, scooter, skateboard or similar wheeled vehicle on the sidewalks of the downtown area or any paved or concrete area of any city park not otherwise designated as a bike path.B.For purposes of this chapter, the downtown area has the same meaning as the term is defined in Section 9.46.010(B).
Full Breakdown
010, adopted by Ordinance No. 1518 on July 10, 2018, makes it unlawful to ride a bike, scooter, skateboard or similar wheeled vehicle on the sidewalks of the downtown area, or on any paved or concrete area of a city park that has not been specifically designated as a bike path. 010(B), the same boundary the city uses for its street-performer and sidewalk-obstruction rules, covering the main commercial and retail core rather than the whole city. Outside that downtown boundary and outside park hardscape, the ban does not apply, so riding a skateboard on a residential sidewalk elsewhere in the city is not a violation of this chapter.
24 barring bicycles and scooters, though not skateboards, from the Fields skateboard facility, and the two chapters are enforced independently of each other. 25 is punished under the city's general penalty section rather than a chapter-specific fine.
Violations & Fines
Violating § 10.25.010 is punishable under Manitou Springs Municipal Code § 10.25.020, which applies the general penalty of § 1.01.100: a fine of up to two thousand six hundred fifty dollars, up to ninety days in jail, or both, with each day of a continuing violation treated as a separate offense. Manitou Springs Police cite riders directly on downtown sidewalks and in the covered park hardscape areas.
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